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Comment · 14 days ago
Others mentioned, but to make it more clear, the problem with regex is not that it gets messy/complex, but that it's formally proven that it's not possible to use regex for recursive parsing.

In fact regex has a regular grammar, and based on language theories, it's not possible to parse context-free grammar with a regular language.

See langsec for more.

Comment · 1 year ago
You are right. But, it shares my gussed city name, which most of the time is very accurate.

Then it says we throw away the IP and gussed city name, which is correct. But they have shared the city name with Microsoft.

I will update the title to fit the described problem.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry, I updated the title. By location I meant IP.

If we have location-based results it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft. Saying *we throw away both the guessed location and the IP address* is bullshit. They share it with Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps it.

Comment · 1 year ago
I tried that on Ecosia and it's the same. But Ecosia in its privacy policy says that it shares IPs with Microsoft.

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